It would appear that on Sep 30, Anton Aylward did say:
Joe(theWordy)Philbrook said the following on 09/30/2011 10:57 AM:
How would I know if the difference between an xterm and a konsole window was significant.
RTFM perhaps ?
I really couldn't blame anyone for slamming me with that.
But I've always had a problem with the manuals... They usually spend to much
time with in depth over my head details and little or none on providing
enough actual examples for me to get the idea.
Even the printed books that should be more helpful than the man/info
documentation. I remember reading a book on shell programing once.
I was trying to figure out how to manipulate the contents of variables
involving making $A equal $B except that it needed to omit the first 10
characters, or something like that. Anyway I couldn't understand it But
when I asked somebody for help they pointed me at another book, which in
turn led me to a third before I found one two line example that would
work. Except by then I no longer remembered why I'd wanted to do that, and
I couldn't remember any of the other stuff I'd read in any of the three books.
And now I can't even remember the names of the books, never mind the syntax
of doing that, or even what the technique is called so that I could maybe
google it... No If I need to do that now, I'd hope that instead I could find
an example of something I managed to do when I tried to learn sed...
Personally, I think I suffer from CRS (see below) Either that or I've simply
got too much brain flatulence for my own good. ;-7
* CRS : "Can't Remember Sh^Htuff" : In my case this means that unless I
* do something the same way every day for a LONG time, or have examples
* of how I did it before (where I can still find them), I usually wind up
* scratching my head the next time I need to do a non-daily task. Or for
* that matter, to remember what I was doing before the durned phone rang etc...
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